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Full Justification: pdfLaTeX vs. LaTeX
Once in a while there are discussions if pdfLaTeX would be preferable to LaTeX. There are some reasons, here I will just point out the effect of the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX, in particular font expansion and character protrusion. Using … Continue reading
LaTeX Community Know How Contest finished
On January 22nd I’ve informed about the LaTeX Community know how article contest. On April 5th the winner has been announced: Thiago S. Mosqueiro from Brazil has got the award for for his brief and concise description of RevTeX 4 … Continue reading
MiKTeX will become portable
Christian Schenk announced on April 2nd that he’s planning to release a portable MiKTeX edition later this year. The portable edition will allow you to run MiKTeX from a flash drive: you could carry MiKTeX on a portable drive for … Continue reading
Periodic Table of Typefaces
Reading Jürgen Fenns blog TeX & Friends I stumbled across a very nice work by Cam: inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements he created a Periodic Table of Typefaces listing 100 of the most popular and influential typefaces today … Continue reading
LEd’s future plans
The developer of the freely available LaTeX Editor LEd have announced a change of its distribution model. From now on they want to maintain a free version of the LEd like today but provide further features with nonfree plugins. Currently … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Release Party
On April 23, 2009 the version 9.04 of Ubuntu Linux will be released. The user group Ubuntu Berlin is inviting to the Jaunty Jackalope Release Party: The party in the c-base Berlin will start on April 25, 2009, 4pm, admission … Continue reading
TUG logo competition
The TeX Users Group is holding a competition to design its new logo. If you are interested to contribute visit http://tug.org/logo/competition/ for more information about reasons and requirements. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2009.
Inline math: $…$ vs. (…)
l2tabu, a text informing about obsolete packages and commands, recommends to replace $$…$$ by […], but it doesn’t say a word about the difference between $…$ and (…). “Mathmode” by H. Voss does tell something, but it says in v2.40: … Continue reading
Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux released
When the version 9 of the Adobe Reader was released last years summer, Adobe did not publish a Linux version. Now the version 9.1 of the reader has been relased for Linux and Solaris, including an important security patch, version … Continue reading
Bugfix of the rotating package
Robin Fairbairns has released the version 2.16a (2009/03/28) of the rotating package, there he has corrected a bug introduced in v2.16 (2009/03/16). Using 2.16 you could get the error message ! A <box> was supposed to be here. <to be … Continue reading
LaTeX Microblogs
On LaTeX-Community.org I’ve read that the Identi.ca microblogging service provides blogs/groups about (La)TeX related subjects too: latex textsatz (in German) typesetting typography Links to those groups were provided by Thorsten on LC.
Tutorial: Commutative Diagrams using TikZ
In previous posts I’ve shown some examples how the TikZ graphics package could be used to draw mathematical diagrams like exact sequences and commutative diagrams. Felix Lenders has written a tutorial called Commutative Diagrams using TikZ dealing with this subject … Continue reading
